The scope of Mississippi’s culture

includes painting, photography, pottery, music and some of the

most fabulous food you’ll find anywhere. Mississippi,

a State for the Arts

M ississippi artists range from painters and potters to musicians and culinary geniuses. Here’s just a sampling.

Family Traditions

Down Shearwater Drive, where the town of

Ocean Springs meets the Mississippi Sound,

you’ll find Shearwater Pottery, and Jim

Anderson at the potter’s wheel. Jim is the

son of master potter Peter Anderson, who

with brothers Mac and Walter made his mark

on Mississippi art. The Peter Anderson Arts

& Crafts Festival honors the late artist each

November. Jim, with his son (also named

Peter) and other relatives, carries on the family

tradition, creating the distinctive Shearwater

pottery that’s sold on-site. Prints of Walter

Anderson’s work are found in Ocean Springs

at Realizations shop in the old depot and

at the Walter Anderson Museum of Art.

A State of Art

Look for pottery and other items by state

artists at the Mississippi Craft Center in

Ridgeland, at The Mississippi Gift Company

in Greenwood, in museum shops such as the

one at the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum in Biloxi

and in establishments like Mendenhall

G&G Gifts, an eclectic shop in Mendenhall.

Artists’ workshops that welcome visitors

include those of Peter’s Pottery, operated by

the four Woods brothers in Mound Bayou;

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